It even features a built-in teleprompter function. It has a slot for memory cards, HDMI, a jog wheel and other video-transport buttons, and support for several video codecs, including H.264, Apple AAPL ProRes and DNx, as well as PCM and AAC audio. The company also announced a new desktop-based video-manipulation tool called the HyperDeck Shuttle HD. The 4K device will sell for $2,995 and will be available within a few weeks. The 4K HyperDeack is designed for live streaming and broadcasting operations among other productions that don’t need expensive high-end 8k video output. Separately, the company announced a 4K version of its HyperDeck Extreme 8K HDR broadcast recording deck.
The company is writing the required software to handle syncing with other online storage services, with Google Drive most likely the next added to the systems, Petty said. It includes 10-Gb ethernet, and is of both a price and palm-sized design to appeal to a freelancer on a modest budget or a person working remotely who wants local file storage, review capabilities and privacy, Petty said.Īll three Cloud devices arrive with built-in syncing compatibility with Dropbox, Petty said. One is the half-rack-sized Cloud Store Mini, which has 8 terabytes of capacity and costs $2,995, and features two 1-gigabyte ethernet connectors, USB and HDMI connectors.Īn even smaller unit, the Cloud Pod, costs $395 and does not have any built-in storage, but includes USB connectors for two external discs and an HDMI connector for monitoring the pod’s work. Two related new pieces of hardware are focused on smaller companies and individuals. The Cloud Store is pitched for larger companies handling multiple major projects, Petty said. A version with a massive 320 terabytes of storage is on the way, though its pricing is still undetermined, Petty said. The base model 20 terabytes of storage will retail for $9,595 and will be available later this quarter, with an 80-Tb model selling for $29,995. The Store, however, is optimized for hosting and managing big chunks of video and audio in its banks of fast SSD storage in a RAID 5 redundant array, four Ethernet ports capable of 10-Gigabyte throughput, and two more ports for slower 1-Gb networks. Unlike many software-based companies relying on cloud tools for their businesses, Blackmagic also is releasing six new hardware devices that can help power a company’s or individual’s cloud work.Īt the heart of the initiative is the Cloud Store, an attached networked-storage device in a sleek black-and-silver tower enclosure similar to its external GPU units released a few years ago. Frame.io will be making its its own cloud product announcement later this week. Petty said the company had to design a new way for Resolve to handle proxies, but the new approach allows proxies to be consistently created and stored in ways that will make it easier for third-party programs to also take advantage of them.Ĭloud-based collaboration for video production is a specialized and technically demanding variant of the cloud-based document sharing approach that undergirds programs such as Google’s GOOG GDocs suite.Ĭompanies such as Frame.io, recently acquired by Adobe’s ADBE Creative Cloud ecosystem, have leveraged cloud-based services to dramatically improve remote collaboration for video editors, visual effects artists, color graders, and their clients, managers, and colleagues. The proxies can be easily shared and moved around for editing work, then exported back for application to the final product.
The cloud functions will be built into the new hardware and into the major components of DaVinci Resolve, whose version 18 is now available in public beta for testing.Īmong other functions designed to speed remote collaboration, the company is releasing a free separate program, Proxy Generator, that creates much smaller, editable versions of original content as they become available on a storage device.